Fearfully and Wonderfully Made is a fancy mid-sized daylily with 5½-inch coral pink flowers that look larger thanks to their wide petals and pie-crust edges. A rich cranberry red eye repeats in the petal margins, which are trimmed in yellow.
Well-branched scapes carry lots of buds for a long midsummer show with good rebloom afterward.
What it looks like
Flowers about 5½ inches across with wide coral pink petals, a rich cranberry red eye, cranberry red margins finished with a thin yellow edge, pie-crust ruffling and a green-yellow throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 26 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 16 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom many coral-and-cranberry flowers crowd the branched scapes.
Growing it with lavender
Its coral and cranberry tones warm up a lavender bed and share lavender's taste for full sun and good drainage.
Care
Grow in full sun to light part shade (at least six hours of sun for the best bloom) in average, well-drained soil; once established it handles heat, clay and dry spells. Hardy in zones 3 to 9. Remove spent scapes promptly to encourage a later round of flowers, and divide crowded clumps every few years.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hemerocallis
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Flower color: Coral pink with a cranberry red eye and yellow-trimmed edge
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 26 in tall × 18–24 in wide
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USDA hardiness zones: 3–9
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Light: full sun, part sun to part shade
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Bloom start: Early-July
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Peak bloom: Mid-July
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Bloom pattern: Repeat Blooming
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Deer resistance: Susceptible
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Pollinator value: Good
Sizes and shipping
Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly.